Aadhaar Linking: What will happen if Supreme Court rules in favour of the Government this time?

Corporate Laws / Banking / SEBI - By: - Craig Dsilva - Dated:- 12-12-2017 - Only those who risk going too far, can possibly know how far one can go - T.S. Elliot The above quote is exactly what the Government of India is trying to achieve since the p .....

r else the facilities provided by them will be deactivated. Currently there are more than 1.17 billion Aadhaar holders in the country. The Aadhaar was initially conceptualised only to pass on the benefits of the government to the common man such as L .....

f India passed a landmark judgement, wherein it was held that privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution with reasonable restrictions. Now that there is a standard i.e. the right to privacy, the government will have to convince the court t .....

r, after which it may cancel all PANs that have not been linked. As of November, 13.28 crore out of 33 crore PANs have been linked to the 12-digit Aadhaar. The pace at which Aadhaar is being made mandatory, it seems that the Supreme Court will most l .....

its of the government to the common man. Moreover Government will state that Aadhaar will fulfil the test of reasonable restriction and hence right to privacy will not be violated. Now some people may think, what will happen if the database of the Go .....